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Rare Gems on DVD

Our users have spoken, and we have listened. You want to see rare and hard to find films, and we have created for you the Silent Gems Collection, available on eBay. This DVD collection includes rare and for the first time available films with our stars, as well as other silent masterpieces. These are high quality films that are hard to find anywhere else. Please click on this link to see the collection: Silent Gems Collection

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OUR DOCUMENTARY

We are proud to present to all silent film lovers our multiple award-winning documentary! In March 2015 it won the distinction "Award of Merit" at the San Francisco Film Awards. In May it won the Silver Award at the 2015 International Independent Film Awards. In September 2015 it won the Award of Recognition at the Accolade Global Film Competition. Of equal merit is the inclusion of the documentary in the Official Selection of the San Jose International Short Film Festival in October 2015. In December the documentary won the extremely prestigious Diamond Award at the 2015 California Film Awards. The amazing run of recognition for our documentary continued in 2016. In February it was included in the Official Selection of the Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival.

We have included this film in our program to illustrate the work and contributions of our star Marceline Day.

"The Hansom Cabman" is a nice Mack Sennett short comedy starring Harry Langdon and a charming 16 year young Marceline Day.

Harry wakes up with a bad hangover from the night before. It turns out that today he supposed to get married, but when his fiancée Marceline Day calls him on the phone, he can't pull himself together and goes back to bed. He is in for a rude awakening, however, as an unfamiliar woman shows up in his bedroom and declares that she is his wife. His butler confirms that they got married the night before.

Marceline Day has a bad feeling about the situation and she brings her mother to deal with Harry. He really can't remember anything about last night. Then he and his would-be wife have a little scuffle, she cries "wife beater" and Harry gets arrested and put in jail.

By a trick of circumstance the judge that presides on the bail hearing is Marceline Day's father. He, of course, is in no mood to release the suspect, and Harry goes back to jail. Mysteriously he is able to escape and goes undercover as a cab driver.

In the meantime the would-be wife confesses that the alleged matrimony of the night before never happened and was a scheme arranged by the butler. Marceline Day is relieved, her father makes a call to have Harry released from jail, but he is nowhere to be found.

The film enjoys a very "hansom" rating in IMDB.

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The Hansom Cabman

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Marceline Day calls her fiance Harry Langdon on the morning of their wedding day as the flower girls watch in excitement in "The Hansom Cabman" (1924).